🛡️ CVE-2026-45005 — openclaw

🟡 CVSS 6.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-613 NVD
6.0
CVSS Score
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Description

OpenClaw's Webhooks SecretRef route secret remains valid after rotation/reload

Summary

OpenClaw webhooks allowed route secrets to be backed by SecretRef values, but cached the resolved secret for a route. After an operator rotated the underlying secret and ran openclaw secrets reload, the previous resolved webhook secret could remain valid until the plugin or gateway restarted.

Impact

An attacker who already had a previously valid webhook route secret could continue authenticating webhook requests after the operator rotated the secret and reloaded secrets. This weakened credential rotation for webhook routes and could allow continued invocation of the configured webhook task flow until restart.

Affected Packages / Versions

  • Package: openclaw on npm
  • Affected: versions before 2026.4.23
  • Fixed: 2026.4.23
  • Latest stable verified fixed: [email protected], tag v2026.4.23

Fix

Webhook route authentication now resolves SecretRef-backed route secrets on each request. A rotated secret becomes effective after openclaw secrets reload without requiring a gateway or plugin restart, and the old secret is rejected.

Fix Commit(s)

  • 36c4a372a0ad5dca8bfc0d93f7aab9c2f2de66fa (fix(webhooks): reload route secrets per request)

Severity

Severity remains medium. The attack requires possession of a previously valid route secret, but the stale credential can continue to authorize webhook actions after rotation.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity high, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-45005 is classified as CWE-613: Insufficient Session Expiration. Sessions stay valid longer than they should, so an old identifier still grants access.

Affected software

CVE-2026-45005 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • openclaw
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 5 May 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
www.vulncheck.com (Web)

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
CWE CWE-613
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-05
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
openclaw — —
unknown — —

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